![Dawn Clements of Fitzgerald, Ga. is shown smiling in this picture.](https://www.gpb.org/sites/default/files/styles/flexheight/public/2023-01/dawnclements.jpg?itok=nrquMNt7)
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After spending 22 years in Ben Hill County schools, working as a teacher, coach, principal, administrator and interim superintendent, Dawn Clements decided to resign in the wake of an anti-gay letter. The school board refused to accept her resignation at a meeting attended by hundreds of supporters.
Credit: Photo Ben Hill County Schools